Bad book blurbs

[Guduk]

Darkglass mountain was a place in the book, a mountain which was mostly hollowed out and the walls so thin you could look through some spots.. like glass.

The Star ance was a form of their magic, along with singing.. like I said, it was.. interesting

[Yichimet]

If you guys frequent libraries--and you should, they're free and can get most anything you'd want--do me a favor and SILENCE YOUR FUCKING CELL PHONES BEFORE YOU GO IN.

I'ma shoot some people today, I swear to God.

[Araun]

I used to visit the library all the time, but now I live in the burbs and the library is in an awkward and distant location.

Like everything else.

At our university library, cellphones just didn't work.  Couldn't get a signal in the building.  Despite it being smack dab in the middle of downtown.

[Malebrignon]

Does your section contain the Green Sky trilogy from Zilpha Keatley Snyder? I highly suggest checking it out if you're not aware of it, Yichi. I first got them from my local library and was dismayed to discover they're no longer part of the collection there. Thankfully I've since acquired hard-back versions of each for myself. ZKS delivers her hippy-love message through some truly captivating fantasy. I'm not sure what "young adult" entails these days, but I first read them at age 14 after playing a Commodore 64 game called "Below the Root". Titles are "Below the Root", "And All Between", "Until the Celebration". You see what she did there? Heh.

[Greebo]

Titles are "Below the Root", "And All Between", "Until the Celebration". You see what she did there? Heh.

Nope. Don't see it.

[Yichimet]

My library doesn't have it, but one in our consortium does, so I can get it.

[Araun]

Libraries have consortiums now?  Do you acquire your books from sinister cartels?

[Greebo]

He could tell you but then he would have to kill you fine you for late return of information.

[Yichimet]

No, pretty much the only way to acquire access to databases, which are run by money-grubbing corporate shitheads who actually rub their hands together in delight when they wake up in the morning, is to pool our resources and purchase them together.

A subscription to a popular indexing service can go up to $80,000 or so. That's like a librarian's and two aides' salaries right there. So we get together and buy access to them as a group. It also lets us use each others' collections.

[Grainger]

No, pretty much the only way to acquire access to databases, which are run by money-grubbing corporate shitheads who actually rub their hands together in delight when they wake up in the morning, is to pool our resources and purchase them together.

A subscription to a popular indexing service can go up to $80,000 or so. That's like a librarian's and two aides' salaries right there. So we get together and buy access to them as a group. It also lets us use each others' collections.

You can blame Z39.50 for that. Its an absolute bitch to code for and, of course, its the standard query protocol for the LoC.

[Yichimet]

Well, that and a complete consolidation of the market into the hands of two or three key players. But yes: LoC has their own, umm, interesting way of doing things.

[Yichimet]

IF YOU'RE GOING TO FALL ASLEEP IN THE LIBRARY, DO IT WITH YOUR MOUTH CLOSED AND IN A WAY THAT WON'T MAKE YOU SNORE LOUDER THAN A FRACKIN THUNDERSTORM.

[Pincus]

I love librarian angst.

[Yichimet]

Today's winners:

"Do you have Playboy in Braille?"
"...no, sir, we do not."
And then I realized he was fucking with me.

Also: if your cellphone has a non-standard ringtone, say a disco sample or a country song intro, it would bring great joy to my heart if you would 1) turn it down to a reasonable level and 2) STOPPED BEING A DOUCHEWAD AND ACKNOWLEDGED ALL THE SIGNS ASKING YOU TO SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONE. You probably fucking text in the movie theater too, don't you, asshole?

[Immermnemion Dawnbringer]

I did a search, and apparently, Playboy does have versions in braille.




The question now is which sort of people would check these materials out after they've lost the "new" condition.